It is Oliver White’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Oliver White collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Oliver White’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, Oliver White may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, eg., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Oliver White also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Oliver White only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Oliver White’s websites choose to interact with Oliver White in ways that require Oliver White to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Oliver White gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their email addresses. In each case, Oliver White collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the website. Olver White does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Oliver White may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Oliver White may monitor the most popular pages on the website or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Oliver White may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Oliver White does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Oliver White discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Oliver White’s behalf or to provide services available at Oliver White’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Oliver White’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Oliver White will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Oliver White discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Oliver White believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Oliver White, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of a website owned and managed by Oliver White and have supplied your email address, Oliver White may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a feedback mechanism), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Oliver White takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Oliver White uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the website, and their website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Oliver White’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of the websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Oliver White’s website, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of the website may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Oliver White and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Oliver White may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Oliver Whtie’s sole discretion. Oliver White encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Summary

If your browser allows – and the default is usually set to accept – cookies may be stored to improve the interaction with the website. Turn them off at your own leisure.

There is currently no option to register yourself with an account at iam.ollief1.com. Only Oliver White can see email addresses supplied with comments or contact information you provide. Oliver White is the only registered user of iam.ollief1.com.

Comments are usually turned off. If the comments to an article are turned on and you choose to leave a comment, you will have to supply an email address. This address is stored indefinitely in the database, which is kept as secure as can be reasonably expected. The database is currently hosted on a secure server supplied by Dreamhost, based in North America.

There are currently no adverts on iam.ollief1.com and it is highly unlikely there ever will be. If an affiliate link is posted, it will be marked in the article.

Any links posted on iam.ollief1.com are either to other websites owned by Oliver White, social media platforms and Oliver White’s profiles, or are related to the article in question. Oliver White cannot be held responsible for the content of third-party websites and their own policies on privacy.

Oliver White uses Google Analytics to check website usage behaviour. Most of the time he couldn’t be bothered to check it, but every now and then he does. It is incredibly unlikely that this information can be identifiable to an individual person, unless you happen to live in a very remote region and use a very obscure device or service provider.